Tag: Commentary

Clinton, the second most unpopular major-party nominee in history relies heavily on Trump being even more unpopular. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

Clinton decline: Hillary, hapless, hopeless

Washington Examiner · May 12, 2016 12:00 pm

Diplomatic normalization plus a celebrity patina does not equal real reform. (AP Photo/Desmond Boylan, File)

National Security

Cruise ship diplomacy is not helping ordinary Cubans

Todd Moss · May 12, 2016 4:04 am

The children and grandchildren of the protest-proud generation of the '60s demand speech codes and trigger warnings and safe zones on their college campuses — all in order to limit speech. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Whatever happened to free speech?

Robert Ehrlich · May 12, 2016 4:03 am

Congress can provide a helping hand to Puerto Rico. But ultimately the current financial troubles that plague the island can be solved only in San Juan. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti)

Conservatives should oppose Speaker Ryan’s Washington fix for Puerto Rico

alfonso-aguilar · May 12, 2016 4:03 am

Recent large-scale military involvement in other countries should give pause to all Americans, conservatives included. (AP Photo, File)

A case for a conservative foreign policy

Fuad Suleiman · May 12, 2016 4:02 am

Nationwide, more than a million students are on a waiting list for a charter school. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Beltway Confidential

How to get legislators to support education choice

Jason Russell · May 12, 2016 4:01 am

Is Donald Trump the new Richard Nixon? (AP Photos)

Trump: Not Ryan, not Reagan, but maybe the new Nixon

W. James Antle III · May 12, 2016 4:01 am

Donald Trump's Republican opponents charged that his nomination could produce a landslide defeat like 1964 and 1972, when Barry Goldwater and George McGovern got 38 percent of the vote. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg)

Will the Trump nomination change our polarized partisan patterns?

Michael Barone · May 11, 2016 9:56 pm

The further Clinton is from 2,383 without superdelegates, the more likely it is Sanders would contest the convention. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

Beltway Confidential

How likely is a Democratic contested convention?

Jason Russell · May 11, 2016 9:35 pm

Given the demonstrated incapacity of government to manage programs and deliver services — think of VA hospitals, the Flint water supply, Washington's Metro — does Hillary Clinton really plan to defend this proposal on the stump and in debate? (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Beltway Confidential

Hillary Clinton’s proposal for bureaucrats to ‘help’ illegal immigrants

Michael Barone · May 11, 2016 7:51 pm

Beltway Confidential

Harvard women don’t like equality when it applies to them

Ashe Schow · May 11, 2016 7:11 pm

Students involved in non-academic disciplinary situations would have to pay for their own lawyer, something that concerns State Sen. Jim Dabakis, D-Salt Lake. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Beltway Confidential

Utah to consider allowing accused students right to an attorney

Ashe Schow · May 11, 2016 6:58 pm